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+## **PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS REPOSITORY HAS NOW BEEN ARCHIVED**
+### All routing development is now via the [safe_network](https://github.com/maidsafe/safe_network) repository
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+#
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 # sn_routing
 
 sn_routing - a specialised storage DHT